Because some people are demanding and lazy, here's a spot to discuss the recent FTF fantasy draft.  Post your roster, wheel and deal, talk smack about each others squads.  Whatever floats your boat.

Here's what I'm rolling with:

Henrik Sedin

Steve Ott

Kris Versteeg

David Perron

Alexander Semin

J.P. Dumont

Dan Boyle

Rob Blake

Steve Montador

Cory Sarich

David Legwand

Owen Nolan

Brooks Orpik

Curtis Glencross

Marty Turco

Jaroslav Halak

And yes, drafting Ott made me feel dirty.  Now if you'll excuse me, I need a shower.

For those of you fortunate enough to not be in your car going to work or awake for that matter at 7:20 this morning, you missed Jeremy Roenick on the Greg Kihn show.  So since JR is awesome and we could all probably use some light, irrelevant banter to start the day, here are the highlights of what they discussed.

• JR is in fact the third oldest guy on the team.  Greg thought he was the second and JR proudly proclaimed his young buck status.
• JR listens to Motley Crue and Ozzie to get pumped up for a game.
• JR likes 70s music, including disco, because he likes to get his ass moving.
• Led Zeppelin is JR's choice of music for sitting on the porch with a cold beverage.
• There is music on JR's iPod that he would be ashamed to let other men hear, including ABBA and Barry Manilow.
• The trick to the shootout, or penalty shot as JR kept calling it, is to pick your hole, look mean and confident, and try not to fall and embarrass yourself.
• He also thinks goalies are much more afraid of Joe Sakic taking a penalty shot than they are him.

I'll add the interview if I can find it.  Or maybe someone else can post it below if they find it first.  FTF intertubes scavenger hunt anyone?

I brought my camera to a game for the first time all season.  So since we don't have much of a recap up for this game and Mr. K asked for one of these, here's a brief recap in pictures.

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[Editor's Note]: LurkerShark gives us a nice article on Patrick Marleau's postseason play. Enjoy.

Here we are in March with the Sharks in a funk and the postseason fast approaching.  To help take everyone's minds off of our hockey related issues, I thought we could all use something fun to forget about our problems and relax.  So why doesn't everyone  gather round and g...  What's that internet?  You have something you want to show me?  Oh.  God.  Dammit.  Here we go already.  

Sorry folks.  Thanks to the internet here we're going to have to forget about the fun thing I had planned and talk some shop.  This is just one of those things I can't stand.  You see what you did internet?  You ruined things for everybody here.  I hope you're happy.

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Hey kids, it's time for our latest installment of Meet the Fins.  This time with more meeting Fins.  So we've got two good chances coming up to do a little meet and greet.  It should make for good times, a chance to socialize with other Sharks fans and prove that not everyone you meet on the internet is creepy.  If you want to go, post away below.  I'll try and keep a current roster for both events here.

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Ok, time for me to take a shot at this.

My dad was the one who got me into hockey.  He loved any kind of sport and was thrilled when the Bay Area got another shot at hockey.  I was hooked from the moment I sat down to watch my first game with him.  I've been a Sharks and 

They say that youth is wasted on the young and I was no exception.  All I can really remember from those days are flashes of the Ov line, Jamie Baker taking it to the Wings, and Owen Nolan calling his shot at the ASG.  I really should have paid more attention, but I still loved it.  We'd go to games when we could.  One of my dad's coworkers had season tickets and my dad bought as many as he could from him.  My finaticism at that time probably peaked when I set up what was for all intents and purposes a shrine to Arturs Irbe.

Then enter my hockey dark ages.  I kind of drifted away from the game in high school.  I'm not really sure how that happened, but it did.  Then it was off to college in New Orleans.  That's when the withdrawal pains started.  Louisiana is not hockey country at all.  One of my roommates was an Avs fan and so we suffered together.  We took over one of the common rooms in our dorm for the '04 playoffs and it was fantastic, despite the Calgary series I actually got to see some hockey.  We didn't get any more until the winter olympics when we watched every game we could, men's and women's.  You know you're a hockey starved hockey fan when you put your hand through a light fixture when the USA women score an early goal in a first round game that they would go on to win something like 7-2.  (That was my roommate not me.)  At least I was down there for the lockout.  Means I didn't miss much that season since every season was pretty much blacked out for me anyway.

When I got back to the Bay Area after graduation I started going to as many games as I could.  I had to make up for lost time.  I was at the Tank every chance I could get with my dad, friends, anyone who would go with me.  Team Teal was back into my life full time and things were good.

Then two years ago we lost my dad to a cardiac event.  The time when he was in the hospital was the hardest thing I've been through in my life.  He had bought tickets for a game along center ice to take my brother and I to.  I needed to get away from things so I took a friend, my brother didn't want to go anymore, and went figuring at least they wouldn't go to waste.  I can't tell you who they played or what the score was, but for a couple of hours there things were ok.  I went to several games during that time and the energy of the game really made things better for a little while at least.  They were the best kind of distraction I could have gotten.

The Sharks helped me through the worst time of my life.  I think that's really what made me the fan I am today.  I've always loved this team and this game since '91, but that year really put me among the true diehards.  I guess it's partly my way of paying them back.  I'll bleed teal till the day I die.

Last season a friend and I bought every 3 game pack and as many single games as we could and are now full season ticket holders.  Best investment I've ever made.

Wow.  I think that's more than I've written at one time since my undergrad days.  Congrats if you made it through all that.

I found myself at Sharks Ice Fremont for the so-called practice.  It seemed like the guys who showed up were really just putting on a show for the fans.  And there were quite a few there.  I've never seen that place so packed.  They ran a few drills and finished with a shootout.  Ehrhoff was giving away pucks, Douglas was shouting every time he scored and Jody was working the crowd.  The practice was much more entertaining than the line for the autograph session.

I also learned it's very difficult to take pictures with a point and shoot through badly scuffed up plexiglass.  Somehow the only guy I could consistently get good shots of was Shelley.  But I figured I could give you guys a photo recap with the best of what I got.  Enjoy!

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So continuing in the whole Fear the Fin census vein and as a distraction from tonight's game, I thought I'd throw out a couple of questions for y'all.  How many Sharks games do you make it do, home or away, in a season?  And how many other season ticket holders are on here?

I'm one of the new denizens of 210 and I think it might be the best investment I've made. On pace for 40 games, counting the preseason.  

So what about the rest of you?  Regular and preseasons only for now please.